The story starts here in the streets of manila is one that could only take place in the philippines gruesome yet beautiful at the same time full of courage and passion. Its a story that will take a gunman charlie to the most remote region of the i think grew. Up. To a trip of a lifetime starts here. In a dimly lit tattoo studio in manila. Plate its. Really a. Grace poly cancer uses a bamboo stick and a thorn from a lemon tree to create tattoos the technique is hundreds of years old grace learned from her great aunt a dignified old lady. Said. I was choosing old but shes one of the most beautiful women i know and shes an outstanding tattoo artist but you want why. I hope i can still learn a lot from her names one nod shes my great art. Even. Eagle and charley really want to meet wang odd theyve already heard so much about her. Yet. Wang aunt is the last of her kind the last tattoo artist of the killing a tribe i graces her people. Everyone in bosque ellen has to two women for beauty while the men have to earn their lives. In the past only the brave warriors got a tatoo. If i. Knew anyone wishing to meet wang odd has to travel to the far north of the philippines to the province of culling. Just getting it takes two days its not a trip for the faint hearted. Yet. To this day killing the provinces more remote and less explored them any other region in the philippines. Even in charlie our best friends only together they have the courage to come here. The roads will end soon then theyll have to continue on foot for a long time people didnt have the courage to come here the land of the killing the head hunters thats how terrifying the thought of the wild warriors lurking in the bushes was even and charlie are expected visitors. Well were not going to. Employ. This just a narrow path that leads to the village through the jungle first they have to climb down into a canyon then they have to walk half a kilometer up into the mountains they can put a man on the moon the people here say but nobodys managed to build a road to push the line yet. Where were. Going to i dont think theyre there. But the way that they really have quicker but the one either. By the talent or. He going in his friend charlie the two visitors from manila want to meet the one time head hunters and their unique tattoo on. Its an art form that now only exists in the remote mountains and the only real practitioner these days is an old lady. Hwang on to the tattoo artist. But until then until the touring gods have other plans for even charlie. Pink is slaughtered in honor of the visitors. How the guests from far away even welcome here. The forms of. Its all written in the liver of the slaughtered animals according to the people hearing killing the. Heart of wonder got the moment. When strange is this it as i search the liver for secret signs. The liver is big round and full then everythings ok you got. To hold when you get paid if its small machine and thats a bad omen wed love to get. Let me get another hewitt. That the two strangers are allowed to stay one decides that the men will get that tattoos the next day. From the history in or is there something with. That im quite excited but very afraid because. Im hoping that after a few. Of these i think eventually the rest of the almost equal. And tame. I think it will be a whole lot and i think theyre. Running them. Knowing. The page has been floated roasted and shed out among the villages. Who no longer. Even. As a thank you the killing go perform their wardens. Theres a custom for everything fell into a groove a ritual the birth and for death for a wedding and for a divorce for the harvest and the hugs and the tattooing. One awed prepares the tattooing process carefully. She gets her needles from right behind her heart she uses storms from a lemon tree. The only real now it would rust that would result in infections. Thats why these the ones are so good. Theyre long sturdy and sharp theyre perfect for tattooing weve. Had little. Wang on mixes the ink from charcoal water and a dash of sugar cane juice not to make the tattoo especially shiny she marks out the pattern on the skin using a rice store. Charlie is going first today so far is not scanned. First you would think if it hurts about twice you get the feel of the first pinch of the new world order door and get used to it well for me its its the same its the same as a getting aereo that with a machine and getting the hand that was so that it is the same feeling of course it hurts but you just have to take it not even one god knows exactly how old she is well over nine hundred twenty right the elderly lady still possesses an elegant beauty she learned tattooing from her father she was a young girl at the time. Apparently didnt well i didnt go this year yet theres no school protectively you either have talent or you dont have when i was young my friends and i tend to each other they practice on my legs my tattoos were always the better ones. The culling got havent always been so hospitable to visitors. Until well into the 1930s strangers had to fear for their lives here. The kalinga had bloodthirsty battles for land and all know with neighboring villages to. Lie. To deter them the warriors cut off their opponents heads among rewarded with magnificent tattoos. For the killing they were a sign of courage and strength. The ground warriors of the past on gradually dying off. George passing one of maybe thirty living warriors with to choose. The main design is a magnificent eagle with huge waves. You know when the young ones were in our favor we went to battle the economy it was mine and against mine. When we all had a knife a spear and a machete. My only thought was about killing my opponent. You know live or die i wasnt nervous or told you. It was like could be to me muschamp were not too sure i wanted to protect my village. When we got to head be brought it back to the village and slaughter the buffalo. Actually i think. It. Right. To celebrate st feasts after the battle must have been quite raucous. In the evening fires send flames into killing goes night sky just like a hundred years ago. Rice liquor was drunk out of the skulls of enemies. The victorious warriors danced themselves into a trance to the rhythm of the gangs or gongs the gongs with the human jawbones still exist there passed on from generation to generation like a treasured heirloom. We always celebrated a victorious battle we danced and beat the gong and. We know whose jaw this once was. But we dont want to say the name of. That would only hurt the relatives. We dont want discord anymore. These days this it is a mainly adventurers from the city wang aunt has spent her whole life tattooing brave headhunters begun once a millipede design. Southerly im nervous now. Number one i dont know what they expect. But i was excited about the final product. This is the first. Big business. Ok. I dont think the firing is good enough. For. Creating tattoos tanks time sometimes days or even weeks because its so painful long breaks and need to calm the nerves. That. Feel it. Feels. Like. A very tough. One threshold. The shoulder pain and then it just repeat its agreed that she puts some more ink than your skin gets and takes a break course and then your nerves i think just exhale quit and go. But she has. Its very calculated the fact that. Even isnt the first to be scared. But. Getting a tattoo is torture just as it always has been. Running because you would think of submitting the. Part or i can have an answer to that other people but for me i think its a price to pay for. One on one side of crowd warrior in front of her he beheaded three enemies two of the man couldnt cope with her needle for a long. Time. And a little early after that id go there ive seen men and women who faint but some wet themselves because of the pain to me thats why you see some of the people here who still havent finished tattoos they couldnt cope with the pain. Isolated from the world for so long the killing i have so far been able to preserve their culture. Jeepney brings visitors to the village just a few times a week grace huang aunts niece is also on board. Im happy to be home. I miss my family and everything thats dead to me. Theres no shortage of rice. Maybe there are even some people i can tend to. The culling i gave up head hunting long ago but occasionally theyre still trouble with neighboring tribes these days they shoot bullets instead of using spears and knives. But theyve always used bamboo and thorns for tattoos one hundred taps per minute the ink mixes with blood but wang odds needle finds its way with precision. You can see it right now we are in a transition in modern its old. And i think if i can i decided to get it right and. Tell the story to share. It. To give some meaning to it. Another. Week every tattoo has a meaning the millipedes many legs stand for all the people here we have to walk with the same rhythm then we can achieve anything. So that. Anyone wanting to learn the art of tattooing has to feel it so because they have to experience the pain on their own bodies. As for grace shes almost completed the climb up to the village. Grace started tattooing when she was nine the young woman is still undergoing training. Let me get. This. As one laundry. Mother there was no. One god became a teacher was an old woman she teaches grace everything passing on her knowledge like an inheritance. And. Thats why grace is visiting her home village. Life in the village is so simple and peaceful the city is just noisy i prefer to live in the village for ever. Nature has always protected the People Living in the mountains. But will the killing to be able to preserve their exceptional culture in the modern world. Some women got their first tattoo at thirteen or fourteen. The more tattoos you have the more beautiful you are the killing of say a tattoo turns a girl into a woman who lets her find a husband get married and have children. After. I got my tattoo as a young woman when i was around twenty. Why did you get to two. In the form that we did it because we wanted more sex appeal to be more attractive to the men. One on never married and she has no children. She does everything on her own cooking eating pounding rice. And tattooing even at her advanced age i think. My eyesight still really good i can do as many tattoos as i want. To get to but who knows if ill be able to see this well next year ill quit when my vision gets blurry but if you really look at. Why god teaches grace everything how she should hold the bamboo stick what thorns make suitable needles and how to make precise pricks hwang aunt has often allowed grace to practice on her arm time and again. Im proud that im allowed to to to ive learnt everything i know from one lot im going to try to be a good two to artiste. Im happy that someone is continuing this i be sad at this art form want to die with me grace is still young she has to learn to work hard and be patient and modest thank you doing the tattoo for someone else not for yourself. John i just. Told it to eagle and charlie this was the trip of a lifetime an adventure with the headhunters i i expect the hospitality from them but it was just too much. Like my memory everyone was so nice and i was looking at us coffee and whatever we needed they gave us during starting up the big three even had portions of it and i repeated this because its the fifth of the month and its got the way of growing up for example the first one is the scariest i believe it is that i stood right and i stood was this what you see if you go up in the village you need to protect shiloh and then of course i was the summit of the month and thats the good people going up every hour out of it and ive lived out of the way but its always been. 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